On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk
<news@terrainformatica.com> wrote:
> Consider that we have expanding/collapsing section that we would like to
> animate.
> At the end of collapsing the section should be set to display:none.
> And at start of animation it shall get display:none. While animating it
> should have overflow:hidden
> to achieve needed effect.
>
> I propose to add :animating pseudo-class that is "on" while element is under
> the animation.
> So we will have this:
>
> section.expanded
> {
> display:block;
> height: max-content;
> transition: height 400ms;
> }
> section.expanded:animating { display:block; overflow-y:hidden; }
>
> section.collapsed
> {
> display:none;
> height: 0;
> transition: height 400ms;
> }
> section.collapsed:animating { display:block; overflow-y:hidden; }
>
> The :animating state pseudo-class will help to deal with
> other discrete non-animateable properties while animations.
>
> We are using :animating year or so ago and found it
> quite useful in many animation related cases.
This seems to fall under the general "selectors can't depend on CSS
properties" rule.
What happens in the following?
:animating { animation: none; }
:not(:animating) { animation: foo 1s infinite; }
~TJ